After being out and about for the best part of the day I decided I'd make use of the sun while it lasted so I visited Metroline's CELF Centre which is Metroline's central maintenance facility
This visit proved to be one of the better visits as I did receive some news on new vehicle orders and allocations. As most of us know, Metroline have won the 105 from First Centrewest, the Route is due to operate from PA. It was initially thought that Metroline would order TEs (Enviro 400s) to keep the chassis at PA strictly Trident and Scania. However Metroline ordered 18 VWs ( Volvo Wright Gemini 2s) for the Route. Their numbers will be VW1175 - 1192. The Route 274 contract was also retained by the company using the standard DEs (Dennis Enviro 200s) their numbers will be DE1156 - 1174 and the Route 209 which was recently retained will also be getting Enviro 200s, their numbers will be DE1152 - 1155, the surplus DEs from the 251 will make up the rest of the allocation.
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| Metroline DE1150 LK10 BZT |
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| Metroline TP422 LK03CFY |
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| Metroline DP37 W137 WGT |
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| Metroline TE891 LK08 NVF |
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| Metroline TP42 T142 CLO |
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| Metroline DE955 LK58 CTE |
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| Metroline DE1145 LK10 BZN |
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| Metroline TP427 LK03 CGU |
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| Metroline DE1136 LK10 BZC |
